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Runs in Indian domestic cricket are not inflation-proof. There are so many good batters, and such is the competition to get into the national team, that just one big pile of runs doesn’t always cut it.No one knows this better than Devdutt Padikkal. The 25-year-old averages an astonishing 82.23 in List-A cricket — including the 2025-26 Vijay Hazare Trophy where he scored 725 runs at 90.62 in Karnataka’s semifinal run — but is yet to play an ODI.In 2023-24, he made 812 First Class runs at 81.20, with a half-century in his debut Test against England in Dharamshala, but has…

Sreejesh has demanded more from his attackers despite them pumping in 24 goals in the two games so far. | Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY Indian junior men’s team head coach P.R. Sreejesh said he expected more from the side’s attackers despite the glut of goals, ahead of the final FIH Junior Men’s World Cup 2025 Pool-B game against Switzerland here on Tuesday.Sreejesh had said he wanted his players to show a ‘killer attitude’ in front of goal after the 7-0 win against Chile in the opener. They scored 17 goals without reply against Oman. But the coach says there is…

Sabalenka has won the Australian Open twice and reached the final here last year. She has also won two U.S. Open titles. Mboko is making her Australian Open debut at Melbourne Park | Photo Credit: Reuters Luxury brands have been getting airtime at the Australian Open as Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Mboko advanced to the fourth round.When the top-ranked player in women’s tennis meets one of the sport’s rising teenage stars, though, it’ll be all about the business of tennis.No. 1 Sabalenka edged Anastasia Potapova 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) and 19-year-old Mboko ousted 14th-seeded Clara Tauson 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-3…

Haryana Thunders won its third match in four outings to go top of the table with a comprehensive 6-3 win over Tiigers of Mumbai Dangals in Match 11 of the Pro Wrestling League.Haryana has 23 bout wins to second-placed Maharashtra Kesari’s 19 despite being level on points even as Mumbai remains winless in the competition with its captain Aman Sehrawat being the only consistent performer, winning all his bouts. Iryna Koliadenko set a new record for the quickest win of the season, dismantling Sarika Malik in the 62kg in just 28 seconds. All four of Haryana’s women wrestlers won either…

For Libras today, expect a mix of emotional highs and lows along with some external judgments, though romance is your saving grace. On the professional front, progress may feel delayed, and if you’re a student, stay steady without making last-minute decisions. Be alert to your budget as expenses rise and adopt travel safety measures. Some days feel like walking under a cloudy sky, and this is one. The Moon pulls at your emotions, and a harsh Saturn influence can make you feel judged or unsupported, even when people mean well.Expenditure or a low mood may show up. Don’t panic if…

InCred Holdings, Elevate Campuses, 6 others get Sebi’s nod to float IPOsNew Delhi, A total of eight companies, including InCred Holdings and Elevate Campuses, have secured Sebi’s approval to collectively raise nearly Rs 10,000 crore through initial public offerings, an update with the market regulator showed on Friday.The other companies that received regulatory nod are Laser Power and Infra, SEDEMAC Mechatronics, Ardee Industries, Armee Infotech, Aarvee Engineering Consultants and Shankesh Jewellers.These firms had filed their draft papers between September and November last year and received Sebi’s observations during February 2-6.In regulatory parlance, receipt of observations allows companies to proceed with…

Srinagar, Feb 06: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday announced that his government is finalising a structured roadmap for the regularisation of daily wagers and casual labourers, offering renewed hope to nearly 60,000 workers across Jammu and Kashmir who have spent decades in government service without job security or social protection.Speaking during his budget speech in the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Minister acknowledged the long and often overlooked contribution of daily wagers. “My government is committed to taking care of those who have given the prime years of their life to public service. We will examine the Cabinet Sub-Committee’s report…

A still from ‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ | Photo Credit: Lionsgate This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard, Queen Hippolyta declares in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while watching the play put up by Bottom and the Rude Mechanicals. One wonders what the Amazon queen would have said if she had to sit through The Strangers: Chapter 3. At least the Rude Mechanicals had the Man on the Moon and his dog, and Bottom providing the laughs. Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 3 is the fifth instalment in the series, itself a reboot of the 2008 film about…

New Delhi: As Uttar Pradesh moves closer to the 2027 assembly elections, caste has re-emerged as the primary language of politics, shaping strategies, narratives and electoral calculations across parties in what is widely seen as a semifinal ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha battle.The political temperature has risen with the row over the film ‘Ghooskhor Pandit’ and a recent UGC notification on equity regulations, framed following court directions. Together, cultural expression and administrative orders have turned into flashpoints, accelerating caste consolidation and sharpening identity-based mobilisation across the state.The film controversy was amplified after BSP supremo Mayawati framed it as a…

New Delhi: India is passing through a critical and complex phase of epidemiological transition, grappling simultaneously with persistent communicable diseases and a rapidly rising tide of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the Economic Survey 2026 has cautioned.While the classical public health model suggests a linear shift from infectious diseases to NCDs, India’s experience has been far more layered and overlapping, the Survey noted. Over the past five decades, life expectancy at birth has risen sharply—from 49.7 years in 1973 to 70.3 years in 2023—reflecting major gains in public health and medical care. At the same time, mortality from infectious diseases has declined…